Mozambique
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Filipe Johannes Madzodzere, also
kidnapped in Salisbury, and Alfred
Roberto Amargo were acquitted of
simialr charges.
New cases of kidnapping have
been reported by our organisers.
One of the outstanding was the
kidnapping of Mr. Peter Balamanja,
founder president of the Mozambique African National Congress with
headquarters in Central Africa, in
lune 1963.
Reports reaching the UDENAMO
offices indicate that three African
nationalist from Mozambique were
arrested while in transit by the Rhodesia police at the beginning of
October-.
One of our organisers in Southern
Rhodesia, who was reported missing from his residence in Bulawayo
and is suspected of having been kidnapped by the PIDE, has since been
forcibly used by the PIDE to trap
other nationalists leaders by sending
letters with his signature plus booked air tickets requesting them to fly
to Southern Rhodesia in order to
meet him.
Trickery
A letter of this sort and a travel
ticket was sent to the UDENAMO
representative in Leopoldville.
During the arrest of Jaime Sigauke in 1962, a similar incident
occured when two travel tickets
were sent to the UDENAMO office
in Dar-es-Salaam, accompanied by
a telegram bearing his name.
HOWEVER. THE UDENAMO
IS FULLY AWARE OF THESE
COLONIALIST TRICKS AND IS
HEIGHTENING ITS VIGILANCE BOTH AT HOME AND
ABROAD.
All this has gone on for 465
years!
Now thc time has come when wc
the people of Mozambique, and not
only we but all the peoples of the
world who stand for the end of colonialism and imperialism and for
peace must expose and fight all that
represents an obstacle to the achievement of our ideals and goal—National Independence.
Today in the face of the great
changes that have been brought
about in the international sphere by
the mighty upsurge of thc African
peoples, today when the herculean
struggle of the Angolan peoples and
that of the people of so-called Portuguese Guinea cannot be crushed
even by the colossal savagery of
the fascist Portuguese colonialists,
the time and conditions are definitely propitious for Mozambique
to deal the final blow that will once
and for ever end the humiliation of
colonial domination on her soil.
In Mozambique wc are on a road
of no return and shall never lay
down our arms until colonialism
and imperialism is finally crushed.
ROY   WELENSKY
HAVE great respect for the
endurance of boxers in taking brutal punishment especially when
punishments are inflicted to their
skull. I am not a doctor but I am
told the regularity of such an ordeal
gradually affects their mental balance and reasoning. Such is the state
of mind of poor pugilist-com-loco-
motive drivcr-cum mediocre politician, Roy Welensky.
He Is Frantic
In a statement which has thrown
out of £ear his own inveterate supporters, Welensky is shouting frantically that there is "dictatorship in
Africa". This arrogant -twerp of a
politician could not—with apologies
to his insanity—specify who were
the dictators and who were being
dictated to.
If African leaders are dictators
that is well said, and done. Because
they are dictating to their own kith
and kin for their supreme welfare
and knowing fully well that pirates
of Roy Welensky's ilk have been let
loose like influenza throughout
Africa in their desperate bid to neo-
colonise all independent States.
If Roy feels he is competent as
a dictator why should he not go
back to his country—if only he has
any at all—to be a dictator. His
countrymen would have not certainly needed the aid of medical specialists to declare him a lunatic of the
incurable type.
Roy laments that Nyasaland is
on its way to dictatorship. To blame
Roy for this nonsensical statement
is to do him injustice. His advisers
are rather to be skinned alive. When
Roy had the Michiavellian to shoot
in cold blood pregnant women and
innocent children, he was acclaimed
to be the greatest democratic statesman in Africa. But when drastic
measures are taken against his
African paid minions and agent provocateurs, he laments that Beelzebub has been let lose.
African leaders arc governing
Africans. The governed masses
have not complained. If Roy feels
that he is not being given full rights
in this exercise, the one and only
way open to him is to leave for his
own country which, I am told, is
spread over the whole globe.
One shudders to think that a
crank dullard like Roy Welensky
has been honoured with the accolade of 'Sir'. The intrinsic value of
Knighthood has now been bereft of
its magnificent qualities, pomp and
majesty. Past Empire builders of the
Victorian era will kick in their
graves when they get to know that
their honoured award for distinguished services to the state has
now gone to the does.
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